Defenseless Citizens Slain: No Charges Expected Against Daley

Carrying a cache of weapons into a bustling downtown office, a gunman chained a law firm’s doors closed and fatally shot three people before a police sniper killed him as held a hostage at gunpoint, authorities said.

And, of course, had any of the office workers exercised their right to keep and bear arms in defense of their lives, Mayor Daley's Community Death Squad would have taken them out, too.

Coming Soon: E-Gun Control

It's called the electron gun, or simply the "e-gun."

When it's being developed by a company best-known for its defense work, thoughts of Star Wars and death rays are inevitable.

But this e-gun, which creates electrons and shoots them at high speed toward a target, could just as easily be used to save lives as to defend the country...

So defending the country is considered the ideological opposite of saving lives...?

And as I asked in "Things to Come," an article on weapons development I wrote for the July 2002 issue of GUNS AND AMMO:

Any bets on whether one of these babies will ever make it to the civilian market?

The Experts Agree!

The country doesn't necessarily need new laws to limit handguns, but it should enforce the laws it has and resist efforts to weaken them, one of the nation's top handgun control advocates said Thursday.

--Paul Helmke, President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

"Until you provide 100% enforcement of the existing laws, (criminals are) going to laugh at you, and ... go about their business."

--Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association

Ever get the feeling both ends are being played against the middle...?

Buffalo Chips at False Alternatives

Buying a handgun in Buffalo, community activist Arlee Daniels Jr. said, "is as easy as going to the supermarket to buy a loaf of bread."

Erie County Probation Commissioner George Alexander used a slightly different analogy. The message is the same:

"Getting a gun on the street is so easy," he said. "They can get one quicker than they can get their school books. It's a travesty."

...In response to Tuesday's shooting of Officers Patricia A. Parete and Carl E. Andolina, [Mayor Byron "What Can Brown Do to You?"] Brown said the city plans a gun buyback program to get illegal guns off the street.

These people are not only supply and demand-challenged, they're cause and effect-retarded.

Yeah, do your stupid "buyback," like it's something that hasn't been tried with no beneficial results a thousand times before. Pass more "common sense gun laws" and enforce the existing ones. Bring in "Project Safe Neighborhoods" (Oh, you have already?)

Posture and promulgate and publicize, and watch things continue to get worse.

And do everything in your power to make certain the "law-abiding" fear exercising an uninfringed right to keep and bear arms of their choosing whenever and wherever they deem prudent.

Fools.

We're the Only Ones Black Robed Enough

Personal responsibility- exactly! And yet they’re only trying to allow judges to carry guns in court. What about the personal responsibility of jurors and others attending court? I guess they aren't considered to be members of the privileged classes.

Cryptic Subterranean touches on a subject many of us non-"Only Ones" have direct experience with.

We're the Only Ones "Third Time's a Charm" Enough

A city police officer was arrested yesterday for the third time since 2004 after failing to appear for his trial on charges of assaulting an ex-girlfriend and carrying a firearm while intoxicated.

And naturally, his professional record can't be discussed with the potential victim pool that employs him. After all, he's an "Only One."

[Via Eric, via mAss Backwards]

This Day in History: December 9

The Virginia and North Carolina militias defeat 800 slaves and 200 redcoats serving John Murray, earl of Dunmore and governor of Virginia, at Great Bridge outside Norfolk, ending British royal control of Virginia. The Tory survivors retreated first to Norfolk then to Dunmore’s ship, the Otter, where the majority died of smallpox.

Strickland Shooting Deputy Fired

New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey has fired one of three deputies who have been on paid leave in connection with the shooting death of 18-year-old Peyton Strickland.

“Christopher M. Long was dismissed from employment with the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office today,” Causey said in a terse news release faxed to the Star-News at 4:49 p.m.

The reason for Long’s dismissal was not explained in the release. But it did state that “a criminal investigation is being conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the District Attorney,” apparently a reference to the ongoing investigation into the Dec. 1 shooting.

As Alice observed, "Curiouser and curiouser."

Parker v. DC Oral Argument Transcript

K-Romulus attended and wrote down a "rough transcript."

Great job! Nice "exclusive"!

And remember--you got the scoop from a blogger, not an "authorized journalist."

We're the Only Ones Irresistable Enough

In the passenger seat, Whitehead trembled and stuttered when Hires asked for his identification and ordered him out of the truck. He screamed when Hires threw him against the truck, beat him with a police-issued flashlight -- and then tased him while he ran back to the woman's house, the records say...

Whitehead, 27, wound up in the hospital so doctors could remove the Taser prongs from his arm. Then he was booked into Lake County Jail, arrested on suspicion of resisting a police officer with violence.

Where do you think Whitehead would be right now if he had resisted--with the appropriate level of force?

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

This is All it Takes

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It was Fabian Sheats' third felony drug arrest in four months. But on the afternoon of Nov. 21, according to a police report, he was looking to curry favor, so he told officers they could find a kilogram of cocaine in a house at 933 Neal Street N.W.

That encounter led police to the home of Kathryn Johnston, an elderly woman who lived alone behind burglar bars and kept a rusty revolver. When officers burst into the house just three hours after talking to Sheats, a shootout ensued that left the woman dead and three officers wounded. No cocaine was found.

Rely on the neighborhood Gollum and use that as justification to raid an innocent woman's home. That's some police work.

[Via Uncle, via Balko]

We're the Only Ones Excessively Forceful Enough

Two of the three deputies involved in Friday's deadly shooting of a Wilmington teenager have been the focus of prior investigations for use of excessive force.

I agree with Tomato 7:

It keeps getting better.

[More on Peyton Strickland]

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Wayne Fincher Update

Wayne may be contacted via U.S. Mail at:

Hollis Wayne Fincher
c/o Sebastian County Jail
801 South A Street
Fort Smith, Arkansas 72901

I just pasted copies of every WarOnGuns post about his case into a Word document and am mailing it to him today, just to let him know he hasn't been forgotten, especially knowing how agonizing it must be to be separated from those you love at this time of year.

If you have a blog where you've written about him, I encourage you to do the same--or if not, just a note of encouragement or a Christmas card would be nice gestures.

I'm also sending him some paper, envelopes and stamps--we'll see if they let him keep those.

Wrong Question

In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals...

Silberman and Judge Thomas B. Griffith seemed to wrestle, however, with the meaning of the amendment's language about militias. If a well-regulated militia is no longer needed, they asked, is the right to bear arms still necessary?

No, the proper question is: "Where the hell do you get off thinking you have authority to determine need?"

This, of course, is the case that NRA tried to horn in on and sideline. Perhaps it will find its way to SCOTUS--I understand they're looking for something to do right now...

We're the Only Ones Opportunistic Enough

Goshen — The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating whether a member of its command staff misused his position to sell privately owned guns that the agency was holding for safekeeping or destruction.

Land o' Goshen, imagine that! (Sorry, couldn't resist. Some day, I hope to have cause to use "Jumping Jehosaphat!")

Meanwhile, rich wretch Mayor Bloomberg focuses his treasonous wrath on out-of-state private dealers who sell their own property.

I got this one from Declan, who observes:

[T]his is my local sheriff's office...where I had to be interviewed by an investigator to determine if I was worthy to receive a New York State pistol permit...

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We're the Only Ones Off the Cuff Enough

A veteran police officer was arrested Thursday for investigation of assaulting a handcuffed boy, 16, in a videotaped attack...The police chief says Meade assaulted a youth who had been arrested about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in Chinatown for a curfew violation. He said the teenager was in a juvenile holding cell at Central Station and did not provoke the attack.

I've been looking around to see if any "authorized journalists" have posted the tape--so far, nothing. I'll keep an eye out, and if anyone else runs across it, please let me know.

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

We're the Only Ones Cutting Enough

Two Rhode Island police officers are in hot water from their superiors as they've been accused of using their authority to cut into a long line of people waiting to buy a launch day PlayStation 3.

Maybe they were just trying to keep dangerous game controllers out of the hands of potential arrestees.

The automatically assumed arrogance...anybody think this is the only time and way it has manifested itself?

Can you imagine what would have happened-- on the spot --if a couple mere citizens cut in front of a line of "The Only Ones"?

This Day in History: December 8

Beginning on this day in 1775, Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery lead an American force in the siege of Quebec. The Americans hoped to capture the British-occupied city and with it win support for the American cause in Canada.

Supreme Court Has Nothing to Do

On the Supreme Court'’s color-coded master calendar, which was distributed months before the term began on the first Monday in October, Dec. 6 is marked in red to signify a day when the justices are scheduled to be on the bench, hearing arguments.

The courtroom, however, was empty on Wednesday, and for a simple reason: The court was out of cases. The question is, where have all the cases gone?

If they really have all that free time, I can think of something to fill it.

The question isn't where all the cases have gone--that's "authorized journalist" misdirection, that is, a damnable and transparent lie. The question is, why won't the black-robed cowards do their sworn duty and uphold the Second Amendment's promise that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed--instead of refusing to hear such cases without comment?

Why "Gun Control" Propaganda Works

Essentially because enough people are stupid, uninformed, predisposed to bias and ignorantly opinionated... I know this test was conducted on middle school students, but I wouldn't be surprised to find a majority of their voting parents buying into it as well, which explains why the populace can be sold a bill of goods on just about any government or media manipulation imaginable.

Here's the hoax site--pretty dang funny if the results weren't so pathetic.

[Via Jim Peel]